The hole dug deeper...

[Wulf]

Some of you may have read my whining over "What looks like..." as I try to find duplicates for a diorama of my 'World of Tanks' vehicles in 10mm scale.

Well, now it's getting entirely out of hand... Browsing through the Pendraken catalogue, I now discover... Dragon's Teeth anti-tank obstacles! Ooh... they look familiar...

The result, full of cordwood stacks, a bridge, pillboxes and dragon's teeth, will be one of my biggest orders, and not a single vehiclle nor toy soldier in there...

So... a bit more than a static diorama now!

[O Dinas Powys]

 

Maybe you could add a tankette to the order just to make it a legit wargaming purchase and the large diorama becomes terrain

Cheers!

Meirion

[Wulf]

Oh, it's going to be terrain now... I'll have enough to cover my table now! Changes my preferred terrain 'look', but it'll all look familiar!

Actually there will be a couple of vehiclkes, but staff cars & other 'scenery'...

[O Dinas Powys]

Phew 

I was just worried for a minute that we'd lost you to the crazy world of military modelling...

...or even worse, architectural landscape modelling ...

[Wulf]

I was just worried for a minute that we'd lost you to the crazy world of military modelling...

Actually they lost me to this lark, many years ago. Former member of the MAFVA, even....

...or even worse, architectural landscape modelling ...

there is a fine line between some wargaming tables and architectural modelling, I have to say...

[Leon]

Dioramas are really something I'd like to do more of, I've got loads of ideas in my head for various designs.  Trouble is, I'm fairly certain the best they'll ever look is while they're still in my noggin...

[WeeWars]

Dioramas are really something I'd like to do more of, I've got loads of ideas in my head for various designs.  Trouble is, I'm fairly certain the best they'll ever look is while they're still in my noggin...

Release your inner diorama, Leon!

[paulr]

Dioramas are really something I'd like to do more of, I've got loads of ideas in my head for various designs.  Trouble is, I'm fairly certain the best they'll ever look is while they're still in my noggin...

Release your inner diorama, Leon!

Yeah, but your's look as good when released

The rest of us have Leon's challenge to a greater or lesser degree

[Leon]

Release your inner diorama, Leon!

As soon as I find some spare time!  Once we get past the start of the shows and the BKC reprint, I might start on the first one I've got in mind.  The other problem is that every time we release something new I get another idea!  That new wooden bridge is already the centrepiece in several mind-dioramas...

[Wulf]

Well, I added in a couple of bits of armour (a Deacon & a JS-3 - an odd combination, I admit) and the order is in as of this morning. I await the result...

[fsn]

The JS3 will have the Deacon, no problem.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Unless the deacon gets a plunging shot from range?
Top armour et al!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No the top armour would only be hit with a glancing blow. Ambush with sabot at about 500m should do it.

IanS (techno geek)

[Wulf]

According to World of Tanks, there's a weak spot just above the gun on the turret top (looks like an access plate to remove the gun), but you'd need a really high angle not to glance off.

Apart from that, the IS3 is made of spaced & angled armour & is a brawling beast in battle... 

[fsn]

Well we can talk about IS3 weak spots, or just note that the Deacon is, in comparison, an all over weak spot.

Think I'd rather dismount and go after the JS3 with a Panzerfaust.

[Wulf]

Undoubtedly so. I only want a Deacon because, as noted above, I used to be a member of the MAFVA, and one of the vehicles I scratch built (well, almost, using an Airfix Matador truck chassis & 6 pounder gun) from the scale plans in the magazine was a Deacon - built from postcards!

The IS3/JS3 is one of the tanks for my 'World of Tanks' project, however.

[Wulf]

And they arrive today, everything looking crisp & new & (some of it) shiny. Haven't had a chance to go through it in detail, that's a weekend job, but it's all good. A couple of first glance observations...

A very heavy box, and a very asymmetrically loaded one. If it was square when it left Pendraken, it sure wasn't when it got here... the packing worked a treat though!

The Railway gun is heavy enough to class as a personal weapon. Funny, I had imagined it would be resin... Needs a bit of detailing, I must find some naval modelling railings.

I may have ordered a few too many cordwood stacks... a lot too many... Speaking of which, why the hell did I order two wooden bridges? I'll never use both... will I?

The Deacon is very nice & sharply moulded, but the wheels look sadly underdetailed...

The JS-3 is a beauty, but there's a hole moulded in the turret top just behind the commander's hatch that looks like it's meant to take a pintle mount or the like. None was supplied, none is visible on the pic in the Pendraken website, should there be one? Or else, what's the hole for?

The Dragon's Teeth & bunkers look great. I may need more...

All good stuff, and it'll get a closer study at the weekend.

[O Dinas Powys]

Undoubtedly so. I only want a Deacon because, as noted above, I used to be a member of the MAFVA, and one of the vehicles I scratch built (well, almost, using an Airfix Matador truck chassis & 6 pounder gun) from the scale plans in the magazine was a Deacon - built from postcards!

The Deacon is very nice & sharply moulded, but the wheels look sadly underdetailed...

Yeah, I really like the Deacon for its quirky, boxiness 

I'm painting one for the competition, but can't find any pictures which show what they'd have in terms of markings and/or insignia.  To be honest, even the colour/camo scheme is quite ambiguous.  Any ideas what might be appropriate.  I've gone for a flat khaki/sand look so far.

Cheers!

Meirion

[Wulf]

I'm painting one for the competition, but can't find any pictures which show what they'd have in terms of markings and/or insignia.  To be honest, even the colour/camo scheme is quite ambiguous.  Any ideas what might be appropriate.  I've gone for a flat khaki/sand look so far.

I think that was about it, it was pretty much an 'emergency' vehicle, just one step up from a Portee. There wasn't much imagination in paint schemes then, you could go for a sand with tan 'blotches' scheme, possibly even the sand with black/grey (it weathered quickly) 'Mickey Mouse ears' scheme, I very much doubt they used the dazzle stripes.